how do you say “apple sauce” in Hebrew?

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/סחרחורת-1.m4a” /]יֵש לִי סְחַרְחוֹרֶת, אֲני מְסֻחְרָר The Hebrew word for dizziness is סחרחורת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/סחרחורת-2.m4a” /]. It comes from the Aramaic word meaning encircling: one who is dizzy sees things going in circles. Dizziness is סחרחורת, so that when people complain of physical dizziness, they’ll say: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/סחרחורת-3.m4a” /]יש לי סחרחורת. Literally, I have dizziness. But to say,…

  מִשְׁקוֹלוֹת  listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet?     Modern Israel’s currency is the New Shekel – הַשֶּׂקֶל הֶחָדָשׁ  listen and repeat, but the word שֶׁקֶל  listen and repeat goes way back to Biblical times, when it referred to the value of a gold or silver coin based on its weight.    The root שׁ.ק.ל (sh.k.l)…

[audioclip url="https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/10.3.2019-conv-2.m4a" /] - אני שמח לבשר שהניתוח עבר בשלום. הרופא המנתח והצוות שלו עבדו בקפדנות כל היום. - עכשיו אני נושמת לרווחה. - I'm happy to announce that the surgery went well. The surgeon and his staff worked diligently all day. - Now I'm breathing in relief. Conversation based on this Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/יחסית-#.m4a” /]יַחֲסִית The root י.ח.ס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/יחסית-#.m4a” /] appears in late Biblical Hebrew, where it means family connection: this is the origin of the Hebrew/Yiddish word ייחוס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/יחסית-#.m4a” /] (yichus) meaning genealogy.  In Modern Hebrew, this root appears in words that have to do with relativity, so that relatively-speaking or relative to is יחסית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/יחסית-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip…